IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Show Members
Did you know that while you are doing dimension maintenance, you can quickly view an element’s parents or children in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) via a single click? Here's how you can do this: Step 1: Select the dimension to be…
October 27, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: An Approach to Strengthening your MDX Skills
Are you new to IBM Planning Analytics and looking for a good way to learn about the various commands associated with MDX? The Planning Analytics subset editor offers a great way to teach you about MDX expressions that can be used to…
October 20, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Version 2.0.57 Release
IBM recently released Version 2.0.57 of Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW). Version 2.0.57 is currently offered as a local-only release and will soon be available on the cloud (as version 2.0.58). This update contains many significant changes, including both new functionality and a…
October 16, 2020
FP&A Done Right: To Recover from Economic Shock, Are CFOs Envisioning Enough Scenarios?
This is a guest blog post from our partner Adaptive Insights, written by Bob Hansen. Hansen explains the why scenario modeling is imperative when facing disruption. Three out of four finance executives recently acknowledged that the planning processes their companies have in…
October 16, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks Video: The Aggregate Function
Watch our latest IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks video to learn about the aggregate function. Lee Lazarow, Revelwood’s FP&A Technology director, demonstrates this new function that allows you to summarize values that cannot be added up or averaged. You’ll see Lee…
October 13, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Sort Elements within a Subset
Did you know that there are two different ways to sort elements within a subset in IBM Planning Analytics? Below is an example of a subset which shows a standard time dimension: One approach sorts all elements either ascending or descending, regardless…
October 6, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Scores 13 Top Rankings and 21 Leading Positions in BARC’s The Planning Survey 20
IBM Planning Analytics, which is built on the well-known and proven TM1 engine, received numerous high marks in this year’s annual Planning Survey from BARC. The survey provides a “detailed quantitative analysis of why customers buy planning tools, what they use them…
October 5, 2020
FP&A Done Right: Three Driver-based Budgeting Tips for CFOs when Change is Imminent
This is a guest blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, written by Gary Cokins. The blog discusses how uncertainty adds to the arduous and often painful process of budgeting. Consider these tasks and the problems related to them: budgeting amid…
October 2, 2020
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Editing Chores While Active
Did you know that IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows you to edit chores while they are active? Perspectives required you to de-activate a chore, make your modifications, and then re-activate it. However, the two “bookend” steps of this approach have been…